NEW research shows that the Personal Injuries Assessment Board is able to provide the same level of compensation to accident victims three times faster and four times cheaper than the old litigation system in the courts.

THE Government has appointed an expert group to review the profitability of the health insurance market in Ireland.

An expert group was appointed to review the health-insurance industry in Ireland following BUPA’s decision to exit the market, it was confirmed today.

MOTOR insurance costs could fall by a further 50%, an insurance expert said yesterday.

THE Personal Injuries Assessment Board said yesterday it could achieve savings of almost €350m each year by bypassing expensive litigation costs.

SINCE finishing university in the United States in the mid-1970s I have been struck repeatedly by our failure to learn from their mistakes.

SOLICITORS could be forced to hand back money to thousands of clients who may have been overcharged following personal injury and other cases in the last 10 years.

CREATED with the twin aim of shaking up the insurance sector and tackling the malaise of Ireland’s compo culture, the Personal Injuries Assessment Board has turned out to be a resounding success judging by its first report which predicts annual savings amounting to tens of millions of euro for consumers.

CONSUMERS should expect insurance premiums to fall further, according to the head of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB).

THE Irish Insurance Federation wants a public debate on the levels of compensation awarded in personal injury cases.

CRASH victims have paid out €13m on hospital care over five years for a service which should be free, the chair of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) said yesterday.

SOLICITORS yesterday renewed their attack on the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) as “a triumph of defence interests over those of victims.”

The Kemmy Business School (KBS) at the University of Limerick has announced its first business advisory board.

THE Government's insurance reform programme is on target to reduce insurance premia, Tánaiste Mary Harney said yesterday.

LAWYERS are deliberately attempting to undermine Government moves to reduce insurance costs, the head of the new compensation claims agency has said.

DISSIDENT Fianna Fáil backbenchers are tipped to get a severe ticking off at the party’s gathering in Sligo today.

IRELAND’S young graduates are highly regarded as among the brightest, most enthusiastic and best educated in Europe, the director of a key export programme said yesterday.

SUPPORTERS of a new compensation board have reacted angrily to a report commissioned by lawyers that concluded there was a risk insurance costs and premiums would rise rather than fall if it was set up.